• DocumentCode
    2244355
  • Title

    Development of performance functions for economic performance assessment of process control systems

  • Author

    Wei, Donghui ; Craig, Ian

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pretoria, Tshwane, South Africa
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    23-25 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    Economic performance assessment (EPA) remains important to predict and verify the benefits from process control systems. In the latest techniques of EPA, performance functions (PFs) have an essential function. However, to the extent of the authors´ knowledge, there has been no systematic approach to developing PFs. In this paper, a methodology for developing PFs is given and two case studies are given to show how it works. The methodology includes six crucial stages.
  • Keywords
    multivariable control systems; performance index; process control; socio-economic effects; economic performance assessment; performance functions development; process control systems; Chemicals; Control systems; Costs; Economic forecasting; Electrical equipment industry; Furnaces; Industrial economics; Monitoring; Power generation economics; Process control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    AFRICON, 2009. AFRICON '09.
  • Conference_Location
    Nairobi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3918-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3919-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AFRCON.2009.5308379
  • Filename
    5308379